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By Laura Sharman, Pau Mosquera, Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN

A high-speed train derailed and hurtled into another train in Spain on Sunday evening, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens more injured in one of the country’s worst rail disasters in more than a decade.

The train, operated by rail company Iryo, was traveling from Malaga to Madrid with 371 people onboard when its rear three carriages derailed and crashed into the front two carriages of another high-speed train traveling in the opposite direction, officials said.

The collision, near Adamuz in the southern region of Andalusia, caused both trains to overturn at speed, news agency EFE reported, with the front carriages of the second train sent plunging down an embankment.

The death toll rose to 39 on Monday morning, EFE reported, citing sources. At least 73 passengers were injured, including 24 in serious condition, emergency officials said on X.

Passengers were seen scrambling out of windows of the trains and others escaped via the roof, in video verified by CNN.

The driver of the second train, an Alvia service traveling from Madrid to to the southwestern city of Huelva, was among the dead, EFE reported, citing sources at state-owned rail company Renfe – which owns and operates Alvia.

A mother whose daughter was onboard the same service said her child called her in tears just minutes after the crash, describing the scene as a catastrophe with an incredible number of people dead.

“At that moment, she hung up on me. There was no coverage,” the woman told EFE from Huelva train station where distressed relatives are awaiting news of missing passengers.

The tragedy prompted an outpouring of grief across Spain, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calling it a “night of deep pain” for the country. European leaders were quick to send their condolences.

The incident marks one of Spain’s worst railway accidents since the Galicia crash in 2013 when 79 people were killed and 144 were injured after a train slammed into a well and burst into flames near Santiago de Compostela.

Following Sunday’s incident, which happened shortly after 7.30pm local time, officials in Andalusia launched a large emergency response, involving firefighters, police and a military emergency unit.

Many passengers remained trapped in the hours that followed, with video footage showing rescuers working to free them in pitch-black conditions.

“The problem is that the carriages are twisted, so the metal is twisted with the people inside,” the region’s chief firefighter Francisco Carmona told Spanish broadcaster RTVE.

Andalusian Regional Government Health Minister Antonio Sanz told local media that the situation is complex and the death toll could rise.

Spain’s Transport Minister Oscar Puente said the cause of the incident remains unknown, but added it was “extremely unusual” as it happened on a straight stretch of track which had been recently renovated as part of a € 700m ($8.14m) investment project and the train was relatively new.

“It is truly strange. All the railway experts who have been here today… and those we have consulted are extremely baffled by the accident,” Puente told Spanish TV channel Telecinco.

The King and Queen of Spain, who are in Athens with their daughters for the funeral of Princess Irene of Greece, said they are following developments in the tragedy “with great concern.”

“We extend

Análisis por Stephen Collinson, CNN

El presidente Donald Trump ha sumido a la OTAN en lo que podría convertirse en su peor crisis al amenazar con nuevos aranceles a los aliados estadounidenses que se oponen a su intento de apoderarse de Groenlandia en contra de la voluntad de su pueblo.

Si la relativa paz mundial se ve amenazada por la fractura de la alianza militar más poderosa del mundo, dependerá en parte de si los republicanos en el Congreso muestran una inusual determinación para desafiar a su incorregible presidente.

Otro factor clave es si los líderes europeos, que respondieron a la última escalada con una unidad firme, amenazarán con consecuencias para Trump y Estados Unidos. La Unión Europea es un enorme bloque comercial, y las represalias podrían golpear los mercados bursátiles estadounidenses que Trump presenta como un barómetro del bienestar económico. Pero las represalias comerciales o la limitación de la cooperación militar podrían terminar perjudicando más a los aliados de Estados Unidos que a su protector.

Los embajadores de la Unión Europea celebraron consultas de emergencia en Bruselas el domingo, y varios líderes de aliados de la OTAN que son cercanos a Trump llamaron para expresar su determinación respecto a Groenlandia, un territorio semiautónomo de Dinamarca.

Hay una alarma palpable a ambos lados del Atlántico ante la posibilidad de que la OTAN colapse. Un escenario antes impensable representaría una victoria histórica para Rusia y China, y quizás el resultado más desestabilizador de los dos mandatos de Trump en la Casa Blanca.

También hay preocupación en el Congreso por las excentricidades de Trump. Pero, ¿hay suficientes republicanos de alto rango tan protectores de la OTAN, pilar del poder global de Estados Unidos, que se arriesgarían a una ruptura sumamente rara con él? Han surgido fisuras en la base de poder de Trump en el Congreso —especialmente por los archivos de Jeffrey Epstein—, pero muchos legisladores republicanos aún le temen.

Sin embargo, en última instancia, el destino precario de la alianza recae en un presidente que ve el poder militar estadounidense como algo que puede ejercer sin restricciones legales o constitucionales y que desprecia a la OTAN considerándola una red de protección. Adquirir Groenlandia sería un legado mayor que poner su nombre en el Kennedy Center o construir un nuevo salón de baile en la Casa Blanca; lo colocaría junto a Thomas Jefferson y William McKinley como presidentes que expandieron el territorio de Estados Unidos.

Trump sacudió el Atlántico el sábado al intensificar sus demandas agresivas por Groenlandia, llevando su política exterior de “Art of the Deal” al extremo. Dijo el sábado que impondría un arancel del 10 % a “todos y cada uno de los productos” provenientes de Dinamarca, Noruega, Suecia, Francia, Alemania, el Reino Unido, los Países Bajos y Finlandia a partir del 1 de febrero, aumentando al 25 % el 1 de junio, hasta que se alcance un acuerdo.

Trump ha señalado correctamente que muchas naciones de la OTAN dieron por sentado el paraguas de seguridad de Estados Unidos al reducir sus fuerzas armadas en las últimas décadas. Su enojo, así como la amenaza evidenciada por la invasión rusa a Ucrania, ha llevado a muchos Estados

By Lex Harvey, CNN

(CNN) — Heroic friends pulled their 12-year-old mate out of the water after he was bitten by a shark in Sydney Harbour, but the boy is still “fighting for his life” in hospital, Australian authorities said.

“It was a horrendous scene at the time when police attended,” Superintendent Joseph McNulty, Commander of the New South Wales Police Marine Area Command, said at a press conference Monday.

“We believe it was something like a bull shark that attacked the lower limbs of that boy yesterday.”

He praised the boy’s friends for pulling him from the water onto a rock face, calling their actions “nothing but brave.”

It was “very confronting injuries for those boys to see, but I suppose that’s mateship,” he said.

Upon reaching the unconscious boy, emergency responders applied tourniquets to his legs to stop heavy bleeding before transferring him to a police boat.

Police officers performed CPR on the boy as they rushed to shore, where an ambulance was waiting.

The boy is now in critical condition at Sydney Children’s Hospital.

McNulty said the boy and his friends had been leaping off a popular six-meter (20 foot) rock into water turned brackish by heavy rain over the weekend. Brackish water is a mix of salt and fresh water which can attract sharks seeking food closer to the shoreline.

“We believe the combination of the brackish water, the fresh water, the actions of the splashing, may have made that perfect storm environment for that shark attack,” he said.

“He is in for the fight of his life now, and the actions of emergency services yesterday gave him that chance,” McNulty said.

Giles Buchanan, with NSW Ambulance, said by the time the boy reached them, “it was a resuscitation situation.”

“It was touch-and-go the entire time, and still he’s in a very dangerous position,” Buchanan said.

Australia sees roughly 20 shark bites per year, about two or three of them fatal.

In November, two tourists from Switzerland were bitten by a shark in Crowdy Bay, eastern Australia. A woman in her 20s died in the attack.

However, shark attacks in Sydney are exceptionally rare, with only three fatalities in the past 60 years, including a 57-year-old man who was killed by a large shark while surfing at a Sydney beach in September.

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Por Auzinea Bacon

Las últimas amenazas de aranceles del presidente Donald Trump sobre Groenlandia y las posibles contramedidas de Europa podrían resultar en precios de importación significativamente más altos que podrían debilitar ambas economías.

Ninguna de las partes parece estar jugando: en una extraordinaria escalada de la intención de Trump de obtener Groenlandia, el presidente anunció el sábado que impondrá aranceles del 10 % el 1 de febrero a bienes provenientes de Dinamarca, Finlandia, Francia, Alemania, Países Bajos, Noruega, Suecia y el Reino Unido. Aumentaría al 25 % si no se alcanza un acuerdo antes del 1 de junio.

Esto desencadenó una reunión de emergencia de representantes de países europeos el domingo, y según se informa, el presidente de Francia Emmanuel Macron pidió a la Unión Europea que active su llamado instrumento anti-coercitivo, conocido coloquialmente como una “bazuca comercial”. La bazuca comercial podría bloquear parte del acceso de Estados Unidos a los mercados de la UE o imponer controles de exportación, entre una lista más amplia de posibles contramedidas.

Esa defensa comercial se diseñó pensando en países como China, no aliados como Estados Unidos, señaló Erica York, vicepresidenta de política tributaria federal en la Tax Foundation.

El bloque también considerará imponer €$ 93.000 millones en aranceles de represalia previamente anunciados contra Estados Unidos que se retrasaron cuando la UE y Estados Unidos alcanzaron una tregua comercial tentativa en julio del año pasado, según Reuters.

“Al menos, juzgando por las primeras reacciones, algunos líderes europeos están dispuestos a jugar duro”, dijo Carsten Brzeski, jefe global de macro en ING, en una nota a los clientes el domingo. “Para las empresas, los desarrollos del fin de semana significan otro período de incertidumbre en torno a las inversiones en y exportaciones a Estados Unidos”.

Esa incertidumbre empresarial llevó a muchas empresas estadounidenses a suspender la contratación en 2025 mientras buscaban claridad durante la inusual serie de acciones arancelarias intermitentes de Trump.

Brzeski dijo que espera que el aumento de aranceles reste un cuarto de punto porcentual al producto interno bruto europeo este año.

“Europa todavía depende de Estados Unidos en muchos aspectos, tanto desde el punto de vista económico como de seguridad”, señaló.

El uso de su “bazuca comercial”, que podría suspender las licencias de las empresas estadounidenses o gravar los servicios de Estados Unidos, podría tomar meses en implementarse para la UE, advirtió Dan Hamilton, investigador principal no residente del Brookings Institution.

“Las últimas amenazas de Trump ponen en riesgo los acuerdos comerciales que Estados Unidos concluyó tanto con el Reino Unido como con la UE el verano pasado, y tensionan aún más las relaciones con los aliados más cercanos de América”, dijo Hamilton.

La UE implementó su acuerdo comercial con la administración de Trump el verano pasado, pero aún no ha firmado el acuerdo. Aunque algunos líderes, incluido el canciller de Alemania Friedrich Merz, apoyaron el pacto porque evitó una escalada significativa de aranceles en ambos lados, muchos líderes europeos rechazaron el acuerdo cuando se anunció, y el último movimiento de Trump pone el acuerdo en duda.

Manfred Weber, del Parlamento Europeo, dijo en X que “dadas las amenazas de Donald Trump respecto a Groenlandia, la aprobación no es posible en este momento” para un acuerdo comercial EE.UU.-UE.

“Estas acciones realmente representan el fin de la credibilidad de los compromisos estadounidenses. Eso tendrá efectos adversos en la economía mundial”, dijo Steven Durlauf, profesor en la Escuela de Políticas Públicas Harris de la Universidad de

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN

(CNN) — A number of forces on the left questioned Josh Shapiro’s ties to Israel during Kamala Harris’ rushed running mate selection process in 2024. In his new memoir out next week, the Pennsylvania governor says the former vice president and her vetting team were among them.

So much so, Shapiro writes in a copy obtained by CNN, that Dana Remus, a former White House counsel under President Joe Biden who became a senior member of Harris’ VP vetting team, asked him, “Have you ever been an agent of the Israeli government?”

“Was she kidding?” Shapiro writes. “I told her how offensive the question was.”

“‘Well, we have to ask,’” Remus, a former White House counsel under President Joe Biden, said, according to his book. “‘We just wanted to check.’ She added: ‘Have you ever communicated with an undercover agent of Israel?’”

Shapiro’s anger was clearly rising.

“If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?” he wrote. “I calmly answered her questions. Remus was just doing her job. I get it. But the fact that she asked, or was told to ask that question by someone else, said a lot about people around the VP.”

Shapiro, an observant Jew and a proud Zionist, was critical of some protests proliferating on college campuses as tensions rose following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack and the Israeli military’s response, warning that some of those demonstrations seemed to tip into antisemitism. Despite his condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, some voices on the left called him “Genocide Josh,” which they didn’t do with other politicians.

Shapiro spent time in high school working on an Israeli kibbutz and as a volunteer on an Israeli army base. He also wrote an op-ed in college saying Palestinians “do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful even with the aid of Israel and the United States,” and had a brief stint in the Israeli Embassy’s public affairs division at the beginning of his career.

His staff has previously downplayed the volunteer work in Israel and work at the embassy, and he has said that his writing as college student does not reflect his current views.

Harris had her own questions in their interview at the Naval Observatory, which Shapiro writes that he was heading to when he got the call. He writes that she asked him whether he would apologize for statements he made condemning the campus protests at the University of Pennsylvania.

“‘No,’ I said flatly,” he writes. But he says he told her he felt he could still make the case for her, even in places like Dearborn, Michigan, where there is a sizable Arab American population and where the state’s “Uncommitted” movement during the 2024 Democratic primary took off.

“She heard me and expressed how bad she felt that I had been getting hammered with the antisemitic attacks that she had witnessed throughout the process,” Shapiro writes.

Days after Harris became the nominee in 2024, a top aide opted not to answer directly when asked whether the vice president still considered herself a Zionist.

The New York Times first reported on the details from the memoir.

Shapiro spokesman Manuel Bonder pointed out that this material is only one chapter of a larger memoir prompted by Read more